New Captain America Is Black

posted by Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
-
2 years ago

(NEWSER) – There's a new Captain America, and he looks more like a whole different swath of Americans. Marvel has announced that a black hero—longtime Cap ally Sam Wilson, aka the Falcon—will be taking over his star-spangled mantle in Captain America #25, the New York Daily News reports. Classic Cap Steve Rogers has been looking for a replacement since being aged into a 90-year-old man in the current storyline (though, as IGN points out, truly plugged-in fans will have known the outcome of that search for a while, thanks to the solicitation for Avengers#35). Wilson will be familiar to moviegoers thanks to his appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.